Facebook Gives ‘Blue Tick’ to Fake Elon Musk Profile

In order to confirm the authenticity of accounts such as public figures, companies, organizations and institutions, social media platforms can issue badges that we refer to as ‘blue ticks’ to these accounts. This badge has the same design on every social media platform and is located at the end of the names of the accounts. Although certain conditions are set by social media platforms to get blue ticks, unfortunately we can see that some accounts that may mislead people from time to time also get blue ticks.

The last example of this happened on Facebook the other day. An account created under the name Elon Musk was accidentally approved by Facebook and received a blue tick badge. The worst part is, this approved account has over 150 thousand followers and the account Bitcoin scammers was managed by

Classic ‘Give $1,000, I’ll throw $2,000 back’ posts:

The shares made from the account that won confirmation under the name of Elon Musk, that is, the official account of Elon Musk at first glance, used a fraud method that we are very used to on social media. The scammer, in short,To the crypto wallet I gave Send $1,000, I’ll send you $2,000.” he was saying.

It is unknown how the currently inaccessible Facebook account was approved. Because anyone who wants to have a blue tick on Facebook credentials are requested. It seems that the scammers have managed to find a way around this. Facebook has not made any statement on this issue.

The other side of it is the page, from the very beginning. Elon Musk didn’t have the name. According to the details in the Facebook information, the page was created on January 28, 2019 with the name ‘Kizito Gavin’. Since then, the name of the page has been changed 6 times and took the name Elon Musk on October 17, 2021. There was also information that those who managed to get blue ticks on their fake pages were in Egypt.